Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Help with printer....

  • 27-09-2007 8:01pm
    #1
    TelePaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,093 ✭✭✭


    Hi all. Would be delighted if you could help with this. Any time I move a fine-looking picture from my PC to a USB or CF card to put into my compact printer, the colours get messed up. It's almost like it's printing a negative; lots of greeny purply colours. Any idea why it's happening? I don't think I'm out of ink or anything like that.


Comments

  • #2
    10-10-20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,069 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    Is the printer capable of printing 'photo' quality prints? Do you have the photo cartrige installed or is it the standard Cyan, Majenta, Yellow one?

    Compact printers don't typically have the best reputation for photo quality pints TBH... but they shoudl have a good go at it...


  • #3
    TelePaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,093 ✭✭✭TelePaul


    10-10-20 wrote:
    Is the printer capable of printing 'photo' quality prints? Do you have the photo cartrige installed or is it the standard Cyan, Majenta, Yellow one?

    Compact printers don't typically have the best reputation for photo quality pints TBH... but they shoudl have a good go at it...

    Yeah the thing is it generally does a good job, you know? Pretty pleased with the quality normally. It seems to print okay straight from the CF but if I upload to PC for tweaking then bounce back to the CF card it messes up. :confused:


  • #4
    City-Exile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭City-Exile


    What printer model do you have?
    The more useful information you can provide, the better the help we can provide. The most obvious thing would be that you're out of certain inks.


  • #5
    TelePaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,093 ✭✭✭TelePaul


    City-Exile wrote:
    What printer model do you have?
    The more useful information you can provide, the better the help we can provide. The most obvious thing would be that you're out of certain inks.

    HP photosmart 335. I don't think its the inks; I just printed some photos I took today and some shots that have been knocking round my pc for a few weeks...the ones I took today look great, the older ones print weird.


  • #6
    10-10-20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,069 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    I'm guessing then (seeing as it's OK direct from CF - should have read it properly) that it's a colour profile for the device (ICC), but I'm not up on that - sorry!


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    City-Exile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭City-Exile


    Are you following the exact same steps to print or are you printing some direct from your PC?
    Are you changing any colour settings on the images before you try to print them?


  • #8
    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    Sounds like you just need to replace the ink.


  • #9
    TelePaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,093 ✭✭✭TelePaul


    City-Exile wrote:
    Are you following the exact same steps to print or are you printing some direct from your PC?
    Are you changing any colour settings on the images before you try to print them?

    Well the ones on my PC likely went through digital photo professional.


  • #10
    Valentia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭Valentia


    When you take it on to the PC does the colour space change?? What are you using to process the shots?


  • #11
    Clseeper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 282 ✭✭Clseeper


    Try printing the edited pic directly from the PC and see what happens. Also it doesn't sound like an ink problem but if you could scan up the print it would give a better idea of the issue.


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    TelePaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,093 ✭✭✭TelePaul


    Valentia wrote:
    When you take it on to the PC does the colour space change?? What are you using to process the shots?

    I usually process the Raw with Digital Photo Professional and save as a JPEG. Sometimes I'll use elements 2.0 (!!!) to mess around with some basic cloning etc. I'm realy busy this weekend but I'll try post original pic and a scanned version of the strange print ASAP. I should have said that when I print using my PCs printer, it comes out with normal colours.


Advertisement